" Enjoy affordable dream trips for a life time," markets the Marriott Getaway Club website, for example. When you can not pay for to buy a vacation house in Hawaii, simply perhaps you can manage to buy a week. To boot, nowadays most of the big timeshare operations allow owners to break out of their vacation ruts and swap that Hawaii week for one in, state, Puerto Rico.

None. There is a button: Request Info. The Marriott website is not alone. Big timeshare sellers hesitate to be upfront about expense. The American Resort Advancement Association (ARDA), a trade group for timeshare business, said in 2012 that the typical expense of a timeshare is around $19,000, with an annual upkeep charge of $660. Understand this: there are methods to make timeshares work.

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